ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,649, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method, device and storage medium for constructing requirement behavior tree" was invented by Wen Chao Zou (Shanghai), You Hua Tang (Shanghai) and Shao Tu Jia (Fuxin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for constructing a requirement behavior tree. An example includes: receiving a material bill including names of parts involved in a current assembly; obtaining a mechanical drawing of each part in the material bill; establishing multiple candidate pairings based on obtained mechanical drawings, wherein each of the...